Courtesy of JustRead JustREAD volunteer Elenora Nelson works with a sixth-grader at Crittenden Middle School.

JustREAD seeks to broaden its impact on local students’ lives by adding to its volunteer pool.

The 12-year-old nonprofit organization provides academic support for middle and high school students in the Mountain View Whisman and Mountain View Los Altos Union High school districts, including one-on-one tutoring for students struggling in math and English. The program serves stud...

Megan Winslow/Town Crier Restaurateur James Maltby now operates the restaurant at the local Courtyard Marriott.

When James Maltby closed his namesake restaurant last summer after a rent hike, many Los Altos residents wanted to know where the restaurateur would end up next. It turns out that he did not go far, and his former menu is now on offer at the Courtyard Marriott on El Camino Real in Los Altos.

Despite an ongoing hand recount, clarity is about to arrive for the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills City Councils – and current top vote-getters Lynette Lee Eng and Roger Spreen are expected to be named winners tomorrow, according to the Santa Clara Co...

From guide dogs to culinary architecture, Los Altos native Alexis Doyle has worked across fields as a young scholar, but she had to learn to knit it all together – not only as a pre-medical student, but as a candidate proving her b...

Some time back I stumbled across a binder that my mother had created when she took a class on writing memoirs back in 1998. At that time, I remember she tried to interest me in her writing, but I was busy and just nodded, glad she had found something...

Despite an ongoing hand recount, clarity is about to arrive for the Los Altos and Los Altos Hills City Councils – and current top vote-getters Lynette Lee Eng and Roger Spreen are expected to be named winners tomorrow, according to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.

From guide dogs to culinary architecture, Los Altos native Alexis Doyle has worked across fields as a young scholar, but she had to learn to knit it all together – not only as a pre-medical student, but as a candidate proving her bona fides for a Rhodes Scholarship. She joined the...

Some time back I stumbled across a binder that my mother had created when she took a class on writing memoirs back in 1998. At that time, I remember she tried to interest me in her writing, but I was busy and just nodded, glad she had found something to interest her after my father’s death. No...

The Pear Avenue Theatre’s production of “Intimate Apparel” is scheduled to close Sunday in Mountain View.

Playwright Lynn Nottage’s great-grandmother, an African-American seamstress who sewed her way out of poverty, inspired the prize-winning play.

“Apparel” takes place in 1905 New York City, where a woman named Esther makes a living creating corsets and delicate lingerie.

Esther’s loneliness is relieved by a correspondence with George, a handsome young Caribbean man working on the Panama Canal, and a surprising friendship with Mr. Marks, the Hasidic haberdasher who loves to share his beautiful satins and silks with Esther and is also growing fonder of her.

Mr. Marks, however, is from a different walk of life and another race, and a relationship with him seems impossible. So Esther settles for marriage to George, which proves disastrous.

Esther’s pursuit of her dreams reflects the hopes and struggles of a woman caught by time and social constraint.

Pear Avenue Theatre veteran Troy Johnson directs. The cast includes Alicia Stamps as Esther, with Michael Wayne Rice as George and Jarrod Pirtle as Mr. Marks. The cast also includes Kendra Owens as boardinghouse owner Mrs. Dickson, Maggie Mason as society maven Mrs. Van Buren and Yhà Mourhia Wright as Mayme. Stamps and Mason are making their Pear Avenue Theatre debuts.

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